Sentences with phrase «wildlife ecologist at»

Tobias Kuemmerle, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison who studies the bison, explains that, because the current population descended from just 12 individuals, it is genetically alike.

Dr. Mazzotti, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Florida, visited with residents of San Pedro Town in an effort to educate them in the proper management of crocodiles.

A more precise estimate of the antelope's range would help to target conservation efforts, says Nicholas Wilkinson, a Vietnam - based wildlife ecologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who is working with the conservation group WWF.

The relative freedom of movement and high levels of global trade in the West account for the difference, says co-author Susan Shirley, a wildlife ecologist at Oregon State University, Corvallis.

But the study may raise more questions than it answers, says Merav Ben - David, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, who was not involved in this research.

«That's a well - established strategy in ecology,» says Scott Creel, a wildlife ecologist at Montana State University, Bozeman.

Emilio Bruna (above right), a wildlife ecologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, talks to Next Wave's Robin Arnette about his research in the Amazon.

«Nobody has looked at this with pumas before,» says Christopher Wilmers, a wildlife ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study.

Despite their extensive range, researchers know little about the behavior of these solitary creatures, says Mark Elbroch, a wildlife ecologist at the University of California, Davis.

«The places are just disasters,» says Craig Thompson, a wildlife ecologist at the U.S. Forest Service and lead author of a 2014 paper showing that proximity to illegal cultivation sites affects fisher mortality rates.

Typically, seeds spread by animals — including insects — simply stick to the outside of the body and eventually fall off, says Kevina Vulinec, a wildlife ecologist at Delaware State University in Dover.

The study did not check the health of wolves or elk, however, and Joshua Millspaugh, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Missouri, Columbia, notes that it's not clear what glucocorticoid levels indicate potential harm to an animal.

John Maerz, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Georgia, says that adult salamanders that consume these earthworms are more successful at reproduction but that earthworms are too big for juvenile salamanders to eat, which leads to a net loss in salamander numbers.

The work is a «huge breakthrough» that should help conservationists protect this endangered predator, says Melvin Sunquist, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Not exact matches

That means that wildlife managers need to start thinking now about new ways to reduce human - bird conflicts in urban areas, says Madhusudan Katti, an ecologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who was not involved in the study.

A mismanaged government and widespread corruption have been the major stumbling blocks in saving Kenya's famed wildlife, says Agi Kiss, principal ecologist at the World Bank's Africa Environment Group.

The forum brought together many of the world's top disease ecologists, wildlife biologists, immunologists, virologists, vaccinologists, epidemiologists, wildlife veterinarians and pathologists, and policy experts to explore whether it would be appropriate and feasible to develop approaches to canine distemper vaccination to protect at - risk wild carnivore populations.

MMF is the brainchild of Steve Bellan, an ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in the epidemiology of wildlife diseases like anthrax, and Juliet Pulliam of the University of Florida, Gainesville.

According to Dr. Bill Merkle, wildlife ecologist for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the average count at Ocean Beach is in the low - to mid-20s per survey.

UK / Israel About Blog Yoav Perlman is a Birder, ecologist, conservationist, wildlife photographer, blogger, works for Israeli Ornithological Center, PhD student at UEA.